Subject: Re: bug#33268: 26.1.50; Can't decode the utf-8 text file

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:11:52 +0200

tags 33268 notabug
close 33268
thanks

> From: Zhang Haijun <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 08:23:15 +0000
> Accept-Language: zh-CN, en-US
> 
> Open the attachment text file with "emacs -Q". There are many 
> unrecognized chars(like \342\200\230). Following is the encoding info of 
> the buffer.

This has been discussed on emacs-devel, see

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-11/msg00065.html

As explained there, this is not a bug, but intended behavior, when a
file includes null bytes.